Belle and Sebastian, Scotland’s best-loved indie band, was founded by Stuart Murdoch and bass player Stuart David, recording albums such as Tigermilk. David left...
A flying visit to the EIBF yesterday, but did manage to capture two of the current crime-fiction favourites, Alex Gray and Yrsa Sigurdardottir. And, as...
Slightly quicker off the mark with yesterday's authors. Amongst those visiting the photographers yesterday were Edwin Collins, Ian Rankin, Festival Director Nick Barley and...
'We believe in the goodness of people...Mary's Meals is a series of lots of little acts of love' (Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow)
Many organisations start life at...
Matt Haig almost didn't get asked to deliver this lecture at all.
When Tony Bradman (Chairman) and Kate Powling (Director) of the Siobhan Dowd Trust started to...
Richard Holloway is 81 years old and looks about 60. Nevertheless, the author, ex-Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh, former chairman of the Scottish Arts Council...
Another day, another selection of authors attending the Festival. Monday's line-up included Paul Merton, Nicholas Parsons and Julian Clary and our man at the...
At the Edinburgh International Book Festival Scots author Ali Smith warned that the axing of public libraries by local authorities threatened the "democracy of reading"...
'What unites us', says Janet Smyth, 'is our stories.'
Janet, Edinburgh International Book Festival Children and Education Programme Director, is speaking at the launch of...
Funding from the People's Postcode Lottery will help the book festival reach even more people next year.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival announced today that,...
EDINBURGH SCHOOLS SET FOR LIBRARY ENERGISER
Survey of parents in the Edinburgh & Lothians reveals 47 per cent have at some point been concerned about...
The ScottishPower Foundation has today announced that The Edinburgh International Book Festival is in the running to win an accolade at the inaugural ScottishPower...
Author, playwright and critic, Bonnie Greer spoke to an enthralled audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this week about her upbringing in Chicago,...
Simon Napier-Bell, Dan Willson and The Jellyman’s Daughter will appear At Born To Be Wide Talk Show at The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Veteran artist...
Top author Rebecca Hunt’s gripping novel ‘Everland’ relates the story of two Antarctic Expeditions.
One is the tragic tale of a failed expedition of 1913,...
'Today's teenagers don't read books'
'Teenagers can't concentrate, it's all that gazing at Facebook'
Comments we've all heard, or even made. Total nonsense. Young adult fiction...